Limited exhumation of Tempe crash victim ordered

Judicial authorities person approved the exhumation of 1 victim of the Tempe obstruction catastrophe successful precocious February, 2023, but lone for purposes of identification, while different household requests stay under review.

Larissa authoritative Aikaterini Papaioannou ordered the exhumation of 22-year-old Denis Ruci, son of hunger striker Panos Ruci, directing constabulary to proceed with recognition of the body.

Three different families person besides petitioned for exhumations of their children mislaid successful the 2023 crash, 1 of Greece’s deadliest obstruction accidents.

Ruci rejected the constricted scope of the decision. “I judge nary of this. They proceed to mock us. I americium present and I proceed the struggle to the end.”

The Supreme Court prosecutor, Konstantinos Tzavellas, announced Friday that requests for exhumations were under information to verify DNA identifications of remains returned to families. Court files already see forensic reports, DNA tests from constabulary laboratories, and decease certificates, though officials enactment that exhumations whitethorn uncover discrepancies.

Additional requests see 1 from Maria Karystianou, caput of the Tempe Victims’ Association, seeking the exhumation of her daughter, citing the lack of a afloat autopsy and missing DNA results. Another was filed by Christos Konstantinidis for his wife, calling for repetition DNA testing and autarkic investigation of imaginable occurrence accelerants.

A petition signed by 78 relatives asked that Denis Ruci’s assemblage besides undergo toxicological and histological tests. Authorities granted lone identification.